more on Nigerian Email Scammers Jailed]

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Virginia Bedford <vbedford () andrew cmu edu>
Date: December 3, 2005 10:20:00 AM EST
To: Multiple recipients of list talk <talk () LAB privacy cs cmu edu>
Subject: Re: PRIVACY:: [Fwd: [IP] Nigerian Email Scammers Jailed]
Reply-To: talk () LAB privacy cs cmu edu




Here's a real life example that I received yesterday on how people can
be affected by scammers. This example is of a generation that is likely
less proficient in use of computers, but I'm imagining ten to twenty  
years
down the road when we have will have folks who are computer savvy coming
down with this disease and doing all their scam responses  
electronically.
There won't be stacks of magazines as "evidence" of them falling for
sweepstakes bating.

This is an email from a colleague:

> I'm just now getting to this request. I have been out the past  
> couple days
> with a family emergency of getting xxxxx declared incompetent to  
> manage
> his finances. He has been nabbed by Canadian Lottery scammers, and has
> pretty much blown his life savings. Right now, we are occupied with  
> doing
> the leg-work to circulate the court-orders to all the various  
> places that
> he can wire money out of the country. He has found them all, and we  
> have
> physically had to prevent him from leaving his house to save what  
> little
> money he has left. He is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. I'm not
> looking forward to the later stages.



At 11:15 PM -0500 11/24/05, <mws () cmu edu> wrote:
> When these "419" scams first appeared -- by letter and FAX before  
> email
> became
> ubiquitous -- the FBI was telling anyone who asked that they  
> couldn't do
> anything because it involved the highest levels of the Nigerian  
> government.
> If (still?) so the three guys who were sentenced must have crossed  
> someone
> at the top.  What is amazing is that anyone today could be so  
> stupid as to
> take this sort of bait, and that a bank could have so few checks on  
> large
> transactions that it could lose its shirt because of one greedy  
> idiot on the
> inside.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bradley Malin" <malin () cs cmu edu>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list talk" <talk () LAB privacy cs cmu edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, 2005 November 22 10:34
> Subject: PRIVACY:: [Fwd: [IP] Nigerian Email Scammers Jailed]
>
>
> > Some of you may recall Edo and my research on automatic detection  
> > of the
> > Nigerian email scam.  This story confirms some of the depth and  
> > economic
> > strain the fraud has wrought.
> >
> > -brad
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: [IP] Nigerian Email Scammers Jailed
> > Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:46:49 -0500
> > From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> > Reply-To: dave () farber net
> > To: ip () v2 listbox com
> >
> >
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Nigerian Email Scammers Jailed
> > Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:39:38 -0500
> > From: Randall <rvh40 () insightbb com>
> > To: cyberia <CYBERIA-L () LISTSERV AOL COM>, Dave <dave () farber net>
> >
> >
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/95lt5
> > Nigerian email scammers jailed
> > Mon Nov 21,10:04 AM ET
> >
> >
> > A court has sentenced two men to a total of 37 years in prison for  
> > their
> > part in defrauding a Brazilian bank of $242 million, the biggest  
> > scam in
> > Nigerian history, newspapers reported on Saturday.
> >
> > The sentencing of Emmanuel Nwude to 25 years and Nzeribe Okoli to 12
> > years follows negotiations in which they agreed to plead guilty to  
> > 16 of
> > the 91 original charges, and to forfeit assets worth at least $121.5
> > million to the victims of the scam.
> >
> > A third fraudster, Amaka Anajemba, was sentenced to two and a half  
> > years
> > in prison in July after agreeing to return $48.5 million to the Sao
> > Paolo-based Banco Noroeste S.A., which collapsed after the theft.
> >
> > "The activities of the accused persons not only led to the  
> > collapse of a
> > bank in a foreign country, but also brought miseries to many innocent
> > people," Justice Joseph Oyewole was reported as saying.
> >
> > The fraudsters obtained the money by promising a member of the bank
> > staff a commission for funding a non-existent contract to build an
> > airport in Nigeria's capital Abuja.
> >
> > Scams have become so successful in Nigeria that anti-sleaze  
> > campaigners
> > say swindling is one of the country's main foreign exchange earners
> > after oil, natural gas and cocoa.
> >
> > These are the first major convictions achieved by the Economic and
> > Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which was established in 2003 to
> > crack down on Nigeria's thriving networks of email fraudsters.
> >
> > Typically fraudsters send out junk e-mails around the world promising
> > recipients a share in a fortune in return for an advance fee.  
> > Those who
> > pay never receive the promised windfall.
> >
> > Ranked the world's sixth most corrupt country, according to an  
> > index by
> > Transparency International, Nigeria has given new powers to the EFCC
> > which is prosecuting about 200 fraud and corruption cases.
> >
> > The anti-fraud agency has arrested more than 200 junk mail scam  
> > suspects
> > since 2003. It says it has also confiscated property worth $200  
> > million
> > and secured 10 other convictions.
> >
> >
> >
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